TY - CHAP
T1 - The Ontology of Change
T2 - Wang Bi’s Interpretation of the Yijing
AU - Hon, Tze Ki
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In the history of Yijing commentaries, Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Changes of the Zhou Dynasty started a paradigm of interpretation that lasted for a century. This “Wang Bi paradigm” is significant because of the deployment of key Xuanxue concepts, such as being, non-being, oneness, and multitude, to discuss the sixty-four hexagrams. Viewing the hexagrams as symbols of time and space, Wang Bi offers a philosophical reading of the Yijing whereby the former manual of divination is transformed into a spirited meditation on the power of human beings in mastering their fate. In this chapter, I will explain how Wang Bi turns the hexagrams into metaphors of temporal and spatial narratives giving meaning to human condition.
AB - In the history of Yijing commentaries, Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Changes of the Zhou Dynasty started a paradigm of interpretation that lasted for a century. This “Wang Bi paradigm” is significant because of the deployment of key Xuanxue concepts, such as being, non-being, oneness, and multitude, to discuss the sixty-four hexagrams. Viewing the hexagrams as symbols of time and space, Wang Bi offers a philosophical reading of the Yijing whereby the former manual of divination is transformed into a spirited meditation on the power of human beings in mastering their fate. In this chapter, I will explain how Wang Bi turns the hexagrams into metaphors of temporal and spatial narratives giving meaning to human condition.
KW - being/non-being
KW - correlative cosmology
KW - field of action
KW - Wang Bi
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-49228-1_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-49228-1_14
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 978-3-030-49227-4
SN - 978-3-030-49230-4
T3 - Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
SP - 267
EP - 285
BT - Dao Companion to Xuanxue 玄學 (Neo-Daoism)
A2 - Chai, David
PB - Springer, Cham
ER -